Scientists have shown that lightning-like bursts can be recreated in small blocks of solid materials in the lab.

Lightning formation and the conditions triggering it have long been shrouded in a cloud of mystery, but new research led by ...

Lightning has always carried an air of mystery. We know it as the crackling force that splits the sky during storms, yet the ...

The scientific community long assumed that to understand how lightning works, one needed a ...

"With this experiment, we're able to count the number of lightning flashes as they occur using data from NOAA's Geostationary Lightning Mapper satellite instruments, and in turn, get a more accurate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An electrical storm off the coast of Byron Bay, Australia. The changing sky dazzles with a natural light show of lightning bolts ...